Ambition quotes page 2

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger, but calculating risk and
acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength
to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.Niccolo Machiavelli

You are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the
effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you
stronger, they're making you weaker.Tim Ferriss

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.Elizabeth I

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very
good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.Napoleon Bonaparte

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty;
to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even
ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?William Makepeace
Thackeray

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but
ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.Brian Tracy

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.Thomas Jefferson

All that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires,
slavery – is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will
make him happy.C. S. Lewis